{"id":195,"date":"2006-11-10T11:58:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/the-cancer-battle\/colectomy-surgery\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T16:41:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:41:42","slug":"colectomy-surgery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/colectomy-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Colectomy Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 12, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Read &#8220;remove part of my colon&#8221; surgery.  Ugg.  The cancerous tumor was big enough that my appendix and a section of my ascending colon (on the right side) had to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>While you won&#8217;t get a lot of chatter out of him, Dr. Cline is a great surgeon.  He didn&#8217;t say so, but I found out from the oncologist, Dr. Yoffe, via Dr. Cline&#8217;s report, that he took out a large tumor that had overtaken my colon and a couple fatty nodules outside it.  He also took out 20 (!) (UPDATE: 31!) lymph nodes, and marked the abdominal wall with some kind of metal marker.  The good news is that he said he got &#8220;everything he could see&#8221;, and none of the lymph nodes came back positive.  But it is still a &#8216;stage 4&#8217; cancer, because it had jumped outside the affected organ and infected other areas (the fatty nodules).  So even though I officially have stage 4 cancer, the oncologist hopes that no disease will actually show up on the CT and PET scans he will do once I am healed from the surgery.  Then it&#8217;s on to chemotherapy and radiation to prevent it from coming back.  The newer drugs have more tolerable toxicity and it doesn&#8217;t sound like it&#8217;s going to actually be that bad.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/index\/the-initial-news\/\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/\">Home<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/index\/overwhelmed\/\">Next<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 12, 2006 Read &#8220;remove part of my colon&#8221; surgery. Ugg. The cancerous tumor was big enough that my appendix and a section of my ascending colon (on the right side) had to be removed. While you won&#8217;t get a lot of chatter out of him, Dr. Cline is a great surgeon. He didn&#8217;t say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/colectomy-surgery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colectomy Surgery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":194,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-195","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9M0Zg-39","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/wheels-grinding-into-motion\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":0},"title":"Wheels Grinding Into Motion","author":"m","date":"November 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"More information, yippee! 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